Robots for constructing buildings are actually very challenging. It will take a looooong time before they can replace all the trained people deported from the US.

⏳ Deadline approaching! We’re hiring 2 fully funded postdocs in #NLP. Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD) 🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio... ⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

Who speaks for Earth? Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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The current generation of humanoid robots is still very unsafe, which is a huge problem if your goal is to put them in homes.

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🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP! Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects. 🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio... ⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

🏹 Job alert: Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig 📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by Jan 15th 🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing

Good news!🎉 The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports. Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus

📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢 Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk ⏳ 1 Feb 2026 ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-... 🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)

🎉 New work: “Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control” We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL. www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/ Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!

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Our final SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! 🎉 📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great idea, and increasingly important to do this work.

Eating less/no animal products (especially beef), composting food waste, and demanding your community quickly transition away from fossil fuels are great ways to reduce methane emissions — and therefore help coral reefs because not all hope is lost!!

Think your LLMs “understand” words like although/but/therefore? Think again! They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession

Open PhD position in embodied AI, Edinburgh - applications closing soon!

PhD positions in AI/Robotics/NLP -- deadline Friday, 14 November 2025 ! Edinburgh, Scotland 🤖🗣️ -- please share! www.cdt-d2air.uk

Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment -- september 2025 intake now open! #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

🚀 Shape the future of European AI! The @ellis.eu PhD Programme is opening for applications. 🧠 Work with top researchers, join joint supervision 🤝 and benefit from networking 🌐 & training 🎓 Info session: Oct 1, 16:00 CET. Everything you need to know is one click away 👉 ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

This week's #PaperILike is "Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models" (Shi et al., ICML 2025). I'm often asked: how might we combine ideas from hierarchical planning and VLAs? This is a good start! PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2502.19417

PhD position available ! - Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents (eg. robots :) - Please distribute

PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social - please contact me ASAP if you are interested ! sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

Full Professor position in AI/CS -- Deadline for applications 23rd June!

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The regular submission deadline for SIGdial 2025 has now passed... But we are still welcoming submissions through ACL Rolling Review 🎉 ARR Commitment Deadline: June 6th Acceptance notifications will be on June 20th, and then SIGdial will be held in Avignon, France: August 25th - 27th

Oh yes, here's the link to the actual pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08590

🚨 New pre-print! (Well, new & much improved version in any case.) 🚨 If you're interested in LLM post-training techniques and in how to make LLMs better "language users", read this thread, introducing the "LM Playpen".

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Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

All aspects of AI are in scope, including NLP, multimodality, embodied AI... DM me with questions!

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In a nutshell — here’s what we are working on at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and the National Robotarium - our Research Themes @heriotwattuni.bsky.social #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD thenationalrobotarium.com/research-the...

New - PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

New - PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

We are hiring ! new faculty positions in AI, NLP, interactive robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

SIGDIAL 2025 will be in Avignon #NLProc #HRI #AI #ML 2025.sigdial.org

Roboverse: unified simulation + dataset + benchmarking that supports many different robotics simulators including nvidia omniverse. One step closer to robotics getting its mmlu, maybe.

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UK Summer School in Robotics: generative AI for robotics, bioinspired robotics, HRI, verification and safety #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML#PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social ukrss.site.hw.ac.uk

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1. Humans are incredibly flexible and able to fill the ability gaps in any systems faster than research will. 2. We want to be creative, solve problems, etc. We want assistants, not replacements.

Call for Papers and Demos @cvprconference.bsky.social: on topics such as streaming vision-language models, real-time activity understanding, grounding, ego-centric video understanding, language and robot learning. Contributions are encouraged to include a demo! Link: varworkshop.github.io/calls/